Here's a rather interesting video I happened to see last night on YouTube.
Having lost a brother to suicide, this really hit home:

Cheers,
Mike.

Well sorry to hijack this topic but I have some songs about lost loving ones in my backhand....(good Song btw and my condolence to you (probably translated incorrectly))

Funeral For A Friend - Roses For The Dead


4Lyn - Husky


Those 2 songs were about suicides of friends. I really like the Video Roses for the Dead. It really makes you sad.

The next song is put together about loosing a son if I remember correctly its a really heavy song with some soul in it

Soulfly - Tree of Pain


The screaming starts at about 02:00.

I found out yesterday that my dad Richard Hastings died Saturdat at 5 am

The news was delivered to me via e-mail from an uncle

It said "Rik died Saturday at 5 am" and that was it my uncle wouldn't even spell my dads name right.

I don't know how he died or anything.

He and I were not very close because my mom felt that I she didn't need a man to raise her kids as she has pointed out to me repeatedly.

But I do remember my dad coming around some times and we would go do something. This probably occured once or twice a year until I was 11 or so.

My father I think tried to be there for me but due to my mom's attitude and his own drug addiction I think it made it hard for him to do so.

The reason I posted the video in the first place, was because Shaun Morgan, the lead singer of Seether in the video also lost his younger brother to suicide.

I used to be called by my younger brother at all hours of the morning, with him in a drugged up state, most times he had a sympathetic ear, but that started to wear off, after 12 months of this going on.

I took 3 weeks off from work to go down to Dunedin (200km away from here) and actually managed to get him off the drugs.
(Don't get me wrong, I know what it is like to be addicted to a substance, as I have had long battles with alcohol abuse myself)

4 weeks later a police officer wanted me to come down and ID his body, he had hung himself.
You might as well have tore my guts out from within me, with a blunt knife.
I've still never recovered from his death.

Suicide is a nasty thing, it leaves you feeling what you could have done to prevent it, anything you think, is a dead-end.
It is all hind-sight.
What that video expresses, I think, is the fact that when you take your own life, the people you leave behind, die also, to a degree.